She's right, he's certainly no Jeb Bartlett. Remember the way he whipped those Republicans into shape back in the 90s. Sigh... he was our bestest President ever!!! I *heart* President Bartlett.

What's that? He wasn't.. what? Get the... but I remember it so vividly. Between weekends on Martha's Vineyard in the fall of 1998, watching him work his magic. Shit, they did a whole documentary on him every week.

Let me get this straight. Maureen is a gal that likes to be whipped up and excited by her guy, but then will not settle for a Pixie Dusting by him. There is hope for MoDo after all. She could start by doing an undercover investigatve report on Orange County California Insurance agents, and hopefully she will not leave feeling flat. She seriously seems to be saying that ensorceling is her woman's job, and she wishes our President would be more of a man. This column will not get her any good will from Sparkly Barry.

I guess tonight we are all going to be "ensorcelled" -- she makes it sound like a prediction while it's so obviously just an ardent wish.

Obama is like the new guy who moves to town, and every girl wants to date him. But after a year, after people get to know him, everyone realizes he was just a flash in the pan, not a dream but a dud. He is relegated to loser status and the popular crowd moves on.

What's lame about Dowd's analogy (metaphor?) is that the right has been using it for a very long time now. It's very good and very apt, but doesn't Dowd need to raise her game instead of recycling (not particularly well) the shit that I and many others have been saying?

MoDo's book about Who Needs Men set her as a terrible hard ass about any men's value to society. Barry Obama is not getting a pass any more than BJ got a pass from her. The wicked wit of Dowd over all men is her meme. What a challenge!

How many wise people said before the election that the problem was that Obamaphiles saw Obama as a blank screen on which so many people project their own views?

Wise? I thought it was obvious to the most casual observer. But even as we heap derision on the man, let's not forget elections aren't up-or-down votes. The election was a choice between two people, and I'm hard pressed to think of a Republican who would have been worse than John McCain.

David...Ensorceled means to be put under a spell causing one to think the thoughts of the sorcery practitioner( also called a Shaman or a witch doctor). We are unfamiliar with the activity in a Christian culture, but it has been a basic religious activity of man since time began, such as in Kenya.

'Ensorcelled' is one of Dowd's favorite words. She has used it in columns three other times.

she used it again in Claire Booth Luce bio book review on July 24 , 2014....is this an injoke, her recurrding use of this word, a joke between her and editor . or what? does not compute. Once, okay. but 15 times since 2002? weird

THE NEWSROOM season 3 episode 3 used the word again here and Sorkin is a good friend of Dowd's re line in the show last sunday -- "ACN won't be attending the Saturnalia of incestuous ingratiation that does little to instill confidence in the public that the press isn't ensorcelled by the powerful.”